Old Vinyl to CD?

Blade

Whats the best way of backing up an old vinyl onto CD? I have an old record player but haven't a clue what software I need and to be honest I don't really know how to wire it up properly. Or does anyone know of a good place in Dublin that would do it for me?

The Muppet

Anytime I do this I record into the Computer n wave form from the record deck using cool edit pro . (You may need to run the deck into a mixer or amp first to get the line voltages depending on your record deck.) Then I use the noise reduction features of cool edit pro to clean up the recording and finally I normalise the volume and save the wav again using Cool edit pro. All In all the process takes about 10 minutes per 3 minute song but you will have a decent quality end product.

There is other dedicated software that does much the same such as stienberg clean .

KdjaCL

I doing this a lot latley.

You need a Line in/out cable and Goldwave (free)http://www.goldwave.com/

Then setup the length of the vinyl ie 20 minutes ,make sure your line in is working in windows.

Then record with Goldwave and use some of the Dehissing tools to make it nice a clean.
If you like the vinyl sound leave it and save as Mp3/Wav etc:

Its fairly easy but takes a few tests to get it right.

kdjac

Civilian_Target

Go to http://audacity.sf.net and download audacity (its free software, so there's no nag screens)

Connect your record player to a preamp if necessary, then connect this to your line-in on your PC. Open volume control and go to recoding contols and set the input to line in only. Test the record a bit, and set it so that the volume is in the yellow, but not the red. Now, start the record and start recording in Audacity.

When you've done that, you can insert splitters using audacity if you want to seperate it into tracks. Then run some filters on it if you want to remove the record sound (but I don't know why you would want to do this), choose your favourite compression format (MP3, OGG, FLAC, whatever) and the quality and save. Repeat until done.

dead air

I used to use a program called "cd wave", particularly useful because it monitors and warns you when you are in risk of "clipping" the wave file. Clipping occurs when you record at volume level that is too high and the sound becomes distorted, something particularly relevent when copying vinyl.

CD Wave is handy for spliting your tracks too, its a very simple and basic program, well recommended. And its file size is tiny.

http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~mjmlooijmans/cdwave/

astrofool

u could scan it (literally!)

Kali

also make sure the you're using a pre-amp or that the record player has a line level output.. otherwise you'll end up with a very low and hiss-ridden signal.

Blade

Thanks for all the replies guys. I'll try get this old record player wired up and mess around with the different software mentioned here. Gonna have to get a new needle for it so it doesn't wreck the vinyls.

Originally posted by astrofool
u could scan it (literally!)

Yeah, whats the craic with that, anyone here tried it? Wonder what the quality would be like, probably need a really good, big a$$ scanner for that.

Did you see this laser turntable, no wear to the records, no crackle, but bloody expensive for now:

http://www.elpj.com/

Civilian_Target

I want me one of them.

BrianD3

This topic was covered in some detail in the Home Entertainment forum a while back. Thread is here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55522

BrianD3

Blade

Thanks Brian, just had a read of all that.

Can needles be still bought for a 20 year old 3-in-1? Saw someone on that thread mentioning they couldn't be?